For a detailed breakdown of the MSCA and what it means for browser competition:

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The act also forces Apple (and Google) to offer equivalent API access to third-party browser vendors, similar to Article 6(7) of the EU DMA.

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This matters as Apple is still blocking rival browser engines in the 🇪🇺 EU, despite the DMA:

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Apple will no longer be allowed to impose technical or financial barriers that effectively block third-party browser engines on iOS.

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👉If the UK government is serious about supporting business, it must back the CMA in enforcing pro-competition rules decisively, especially when those rules are essential to giving startups and smaller companies a fair shot at innovation and growth.

Functionality limitations in web apps stem from Apple’s own restrictions on web browsers, undermining their ability to compete with native apps.

No Browser Engine Competition on iOS

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“And for whatever reason, they have chosen not to do so.”

This is simply false.

We asked Apple:

💬The DMA has been in force for 15 months. No browser vendor has ported their engine to iOS. Not because they can’t, but because Apple’s rules make it nearly impossible. Why is Apple insisting vendors lose their existing EU users? (abbreviated)

Apple’s reply?

The DMA has been in force for over 15 months. Not one browser with its own engine has made it to iOS.

Not because they can’t. Because Apple won’t let them.

Apple could solve this today.

They could let browser vendors ship two versions of the same app, one for the EU, one for the rest of the world, under the same bundle ID.

Apple just refuses.

One barrier stands out most of all, Apple won’t let browsers update their current app to use their own engine in the EU.

Instead, they must publish a brand new app and rebuild their user base from scratch

So what’s standing in the way?

🚫 Apple forces browsers to abandon all current EU user
🧪 No way to test EU browser features for global devs
✈️ No clarity on updates for EU users who travel
📄 One-sided legal terms and contracts

This lets Apple control what web apps can do, and stops them from threatening the App Store. No other gatekeeper does this. Only Apple bans competing browser engines.

⚠️Vendors want to ship their REAL browser to iOS, not be forced to produce a separate one with Safari's engine.